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Hardly less valuable is Adm. Jurien de la Gravière's Les Derniers Jours de la Marine
Another time the Dey confessed with dignified naïveté to Consul Cole: "The Algerines are a company of rogues and I am their Captain!" Several Voyages, 111 ff. See his descendant Adm. Spratt's Travels and Researches in Crete, i. 384-7. Playfair, 64 ff. Voyages, ii. 887. Several Voyages, 57-8. Morgan, Pref. v., vi. Playfair, 94.
Helen's with the combined squadrons of England and Holland, amounting to ninety ships of the line, besides frigates, fire-ships, and tenders. He detached captain Pritchard of the Monmouth with two fire-ships, to destroy a fleet of French merchant ships near Conquet-bay; and this service being performed, he returned to St. Helen's, where he had left Adm.
These cars were moved to points north and south on the line twice weekly for small detachments to get their ration of biscuit and sweets, small as it was. Gen. Richardson and Adm. McCully at Army-Navy Game "Another row of cars was maintained at Obozerskaya, where the first outpost entertainment hut was opened about Christmas time with a program of moving pictures, athletic stunts and feeds.
So at Jījil Urūj dwelt, and cultivated the good-will of the people with spoils of corn and goods from his cruisers, till those "indomitable African mountaineers," who had never owned a superior, chose him by acclamation their king. Von Hammer naturally follows Hājji Khalīfa, and modern writers, like Adm. Jurien de la Gravière, take the same course. Quoted by Morgan, Hist. of Algiers, 225.
She was a correspondent of Selwyn, and of Walpole, who called her "my duchess." She was "gifted with high endowments of mind and person, high spirited, and noble in her ways of thinking, and generous in her disposition." I had the curiosity to enquire how things were, and found Richard in his Pharo pulpit, where he had been, alternately with Charles, since the evening before, and dealing to Adm.
So says Jean Marteille de Bergerac, a galley-slave about 1701, quoted by Adm. Jurien de la Gravière, Derniers Jours de la Marine
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